Re: Quick Question

2013-08-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Fred White wrote: > If I apt-get install (package) from debian-backports/ > squeeze-backports main will any other areas of my debian get > modified? > > I am using [squeeze] and the package that I need is in squeeze-backport When you perform the installation action it will tell you exactly what pa

Re: Quick question

2007-01-03 Thread Gregor Schneider
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Re: Quick question

2007-01-03 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:00, Gregor Schneider wrote: > Hi guys, > > just a short question: > > After installing Edge, I see the common-user-$PS1 as follows: > > ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ > > I understand [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$, however, what does > > ${debian_ch

Re: Quick question

2007-01-03 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Gregor. Gregor Schneider, 03.01.2007 17:00: > just a short question: > > After installing Edge, I see the common-user-$PS1 as follows: > > ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ > > I understand [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$, however, what does > > ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chr

Re: Quick question: Choice of release

2004-08-19 Thread John Summerfield
Anders Breindahl wrote: I and a friend are playing with the idea of convincing our gymnasium to using Debian GNU/Linux as their main server OS. As it comes to this issue, which release we would want; stable, testing or unstable? Making the choice, it would matter that the focus is on reliabil

Re: Quick question: Choice of release

2004-08-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:33:49AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > I and a friend are playing with the idea of convincing our gymnasium to > using Debian GNU/Linux as their main server OS. > > As it comes to this issue, which release we would want; stable, testing or > unstable? > > Making

Re: Quick question: Choice of release

2004-08-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 10:33, Anders Breindahl wrote: > I and a friend are playing with the idea of convincing our gymnasium to > using Debian GNU/Linux as their main server OS. > > As it comes to this issue, which release we would want; stable, testing or > unstable? > > Making the choice,

Re: Quick question: Choice of release

2004-08-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 16 August 2004 02:33 pm, Anders Breindahl wrote: > I and a friend are playing with the idea of convincing our gymnasium > to using Debian GNU/Linux as their main server OS. > > As it comes to this issue, which release we would want; stable, > testing or unstable? > > Making the choice, it

Re: Quick question regarding permissions and tar

2003-08-21 Thread Darik Horn
tar cvfPpj /home/mark/secure-server-woody.tar.bz2 /home/image/secure-server Run `tar jtvvf secure-sever-woody.tar.bz2` and notice how every file in the tarball has the '/home/image/secure-server' prefix. This will make it difficult to unpack. (The 'Pp' switches are not doing what you think they'r

Re: quick question about fvwm 2.4 screen shot

2003-04-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:14, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. forgive me for asking this, but I saw a > screen shot of fvwm and it had something running > in the lower left corner of the screen. I have > never seen it before and I was hoping someone > might be able to tell me what it is called. It > looks

Re: quick question about fvwm 2.4 screen shot

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:14:05AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. forgive me for asking this, but I saw a > screen shot of fvwm and it had something running > in the lower left corner of the screen. I have > never seen it before and I was hoping someone > might be able to tell me what it is calle

Re: Quick question on controllers

2002-05-31 Thread Andrew Sweger
I personally like the 3ware cards. I've had stability problems with certain cards that promised (*cough*) to do better. I just installed four pair of 3ware's 7850's in four machines and they work great. Plus, if you go with the 7410 and later decide you do want RAID, you're all set to go. Keep in m

Re: quick question-where does XFree86 put drivers it uses?

2001-08-29 Thread David
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 4:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently using the default nv driver for my X-server and would like > to upgrade to the newer NVdriver from NVIDIA. I have successfully built the > binary version of the driver and the read me tells me I need to put this

Re: quick question

2001-06-07 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:04:11PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote: :just a quick question for those adminning large networks out there - : :what software package do you use for notifications etc? I am a junior admin :in a large network of linux/freebsd machines, and looking at implementing a :system ba

Re: quick question on annoying netscape

2000-06-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > john smith wrote: > > > > hello. I'd like to know how to get rid of that annonying netscape group > > icons near the bottom right-hand side of communicator. (the > > navigator,inbox,newsgroups,addressbook and composer). well, maybe I can > > leave the navi

Re: quick question on annoying netscape

2000-06-21 Thread Bolan Meek
john smith wrote: > > hello. I'd like to know how to get rid of that annonying netscape group > icons near the bottom right-hand side of communicator. (the > navigator,inbox,newsgroups,addressbook and composer). well, maybe I can > leave the navigator icon there... > > TIA YWIA. If you click on

Re: Quick Question

2000-05-16 Thread Graeme Mathieson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'apt-get install communicator' at the command prompt with root privileges. Or if you find the mai/news/composer stuff to be excess crap which you'll not use, you can do 'apt-get install navigat

RE: Quick Question

2000-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2000 Jay Kelly wrote: > When running X, Where do I find NetScape Browser.I tried Mozilla Navigator. > Thats not is right? > Thank Guys > if you have it installed, it will be in the Apps menu, under Net. otherwise you need to type: 'apt-get install communicator' at the command prompt

Re: quick question

2000-03-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Tek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Okay, I was confusing LILO and loadlin (I knew what I was talking about, but > didn't use the right name). I believe I know now what to do, but I still > don't know about one thing: should I toggle the "bootable" flag on for the > root partition on the HDD, or le

Re: quick question

2000-03-07 Thread Dean Struss
Tek wrote: > Okay, I was confusing LILO and loadlin (I knew what I was talking about, but > didn't use the right name). I believe I know now what to do, but I still > don't know about one thing: should I toggle the "bootable" flag on for the > root partition on the HDD, or leave it off, if I in

Re: Quick question on screen depth

1998-10-18 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Christian Lavoie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | How can I configure the SVGA Xserver to use a 16bpp resolution by default? | How am I supposed to switch to such a resolutio anyway? I haven't yet been | able to use anything else than 256 colors res. See in /etc/X11/XF86Config. In the Section "Screen"

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Mike Acklin
Thanks for the pointers from both you and Ray. And to David Engle for the Debian Package. I have done some fiddling around and have a work around on your two points. On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:48:52AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > There are two things I would like to add.(Hope you find it int

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Mike Acklin
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:34:31AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > you just described "xringd". :-> I've heard of it but haven't installed > it, so I'm not sure if there's a .deb file for it. Even if you have to go > find it, it's exactly what you need. > > Sincerely, > > Ray Ingles

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-" Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Mike Acklin wrote: | | > Hello Everyone, | > | > I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a | > way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it | > will monitor the port and if

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > There are two things I would like to add.(Hope you find it interesting) > > 1. When I installed xringd, it could not find the modem and -m option did > not work.So I recompiled xringd and explicitly defined modem device as > /dev/ttyS1 > > 2. When

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Mike Acklin wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a > way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it > will monitor the port and if it sees "RING", the system will automagically > start pon

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Lazar Fleysher
There are two things I would like to add.(Hope you find it interesting) 1. When I installed xringd, it could not find the modem and -m option did not work.So I recompiled xringd and explicitly defined modem device as /dev/ttyS1 2. When you start pon it resets the modem and after you do poff, xri

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Mike Acklin
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 07:42:59AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > Not mgetty. That's if you want to run a PPP server, among other > things. What you want is xringd. It allows you to call your computer > and run any command you want, including whatver you use to initiate > your PPP link, depend

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Mike Acklin
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 08:53:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think you want xringd. This a daemon that watches for incoming ring > patterns i.e ring-ring-pause 60 sec.-ring. Then when a preset ring > pattern is caught it will execute a command for that ring pattern, ie. > execute pon

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread servis
*- Mike Acklin wrote about "Re: Quick Question" | On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote: | > It's mgetty. You need to update your inittab to run mgetty on boot ( or | > when edited just run a : init q :) reread init tab ;) and that's al

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Zilvinas Valinskas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | At 07:00 1998.09.25 -0500, Mike Acklin wrote: | >Hello Everyone, | > | > I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a | >way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it | >will monitor the port and if

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Mike Acklin
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote: > It's mgetty. You need to update your inittab to run mgetty on boot ( or > when edited just run a : init q :) reread init tab ;) and that's all ) > Setup up to listen /dev/ttySx ( x=0,1, => com1, com2 in dos ). More > inform

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
[...] > > What I am trying to do is have my home computer on and connected to > >a separate line, and be offline. Then if I need something from my computer > >from work or somewhere else besides home, I can dial my home number, the > system > >will see an incoming call, the start the ppp/pon so

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Zilvinas Valinskas
At 07:00 1998.09.25 -0500, Mike Acklin wrote: >Hello Everyone, > > I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a >way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it >will monitor the port and if it sees "RING", the system will automagically >start pon

Re: quick question about networking

1998-06-09 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
I'm not sure if there's a script for it but all the important parameters are in /etc/init.d/network you can just use an editor to change them. Nate On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Ian Eure wrote: > i just need to know if there is some script (ala slackware's netconfig) that > will let me reconfigure my netw

Re: Quick Question

1998-01-03 Thread Sten Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote: > > > I have a Slackware 2.0 system that has no capability of running a > > floppy or booting from the CD-ROM (Sound Blaster Pro16). I would like > > to update it to the newest (1.3) Debian release that I have so

Re: Quick Question

1998-01-02 Thread dg
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote: > I have a Slackware 2.0 system that has no capability of running a > floppy or booting from the CD-ROM (Sound Blaster Pro16). I would like > to update it to the newest (1.3) Debian release that I have so my main > machine and my serve

Re: Quick question on /etc/modules

1997-06-25 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:31:39 BST "G. Kapetanios" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I accidentally sent a job to the print queue while the lpd daemon was > running . I have no printer and no printer support in my kernel . Now I > get a message from modprobe about the module char-major-6 not being >